Copy from Annotation to Model Families
Revit doesn’t want you to copy lines between Annotation and Model Families (see below) However, it can be done. This is the workflow to copy lines from Annotation to Model families: Copy lines from th…
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Modeling a Stealth Aircraft in Revit
Erik Egbertson over at Inside the Factory made a comment about modeling a Stealth Aircraft in a recent post, and it got me thinking. How would you go about it? Now, I’m sure it would be possible to do…
Having problems while Joining Surfaces?
When you use the Join Geometry tool in Revit, you may notice that it sometimes just doesn’t seem to ‘work’. You do everything right, join the two adjacent surfaces – and there is still an ugly join li…
Disappearing 'Finish Sketch' or 'Finish Mass' Ribbon Elements
Occasionally you may find that the Finish Sketch and Cancel Sketch buttons disappear from the Ribbon. The easiest way to get out of this situation is to map a Keyboard Shortcut for these commands. You…
Smartness with Object Styles
Revit wants you to understand it. It wants to be logical. Sometimes you need to give Revit a bit of a hand. You may need to take a few simple steps to make Revit more understandable. David Light has s…
Ribbon Hero – do we need this for Revit?
“Ribbon Hero currently works with Word, PowerPoint, and Excel (both 32/64 Bit) and it is only limited to Version 2007 and 2010 only. Once it is installed, there is a tiny green Ribbon Hero icon added …
Giveaway of the Day – Free Software Daily
There is a very cool site at http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ Fully free software is made available daily. If you are interested in keeping an accurate record of time spent on projects, have a look at…
Mutually Assured Destruction – Intel vs AMD 64 bit architecture
Found some very interesting information on Wikipedia about 32 bit and 64 bit processor architecture – check it out (italics by me): AMD licensed its x86-64 design to Intel, where it is marketed under …
How To Create a Revit Walkthrough and then Upload it to Youtube
Here is a brief how-to on creating a large, high resolution rendered Revit walkthrough (or sun study) and then subsequently compressing and uploading it to Youtube. Setup your walkthrough view. In Rev…
How to backup and transfer Outlook signatures
Found this guide at http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archive/2008/07/11/how-do-i-back-up-my-signatures.aspx Basically, hold the ‘Ctrl’ key when clicking the ‘Signatures’ button and you will be redirected…